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Pablo Volta

Born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, in 1926, from Tuscan father, a journalist, and Argentine mother of Italian origins, he moved with his family to Italy in 1932, where he completed his
studies.He fought with the partisans in between 1944 and 1945.He begins his career as a photographer
in 1949, in
Berlin,where he attended an Elementary
Photography course organized by the US occupationarmy.He then worked with the weekly magazine Il Mondo.

He founded the cooperative Photographers
Associates in 1952, together with Franco Pinna, Plinio De Martiis, Caio
Mario Garrubba, and Nicola Sansone.In 1954 he visited
Sardinia for the first time, taking the photos for "Inchiesta su Orgosolo" by Franco Cagnetta.This first trip will be succeeded by others, between 1954 and 1957, still
in Barbagia, Orgosolo, Desulo, Mamoiada.He then moved to Paris, where he
photographed intellectuals and members of the art world.
He worked for the correspondence office of RAI, national Italian television, as a reporter, in 1966 participates in the Cinq Colonnes à la une, program on French television
that broadcast a series of programs dedicated to Sardinia.At the end
of the '70s he discovered the murals in Sardinia: his reportage was exhibited in France, in Caen, at an international murals exhibition in 1981, and then in Italy.He settled in San Sperate, Sardinia, in 1981, where he died in July
2011.

Giovanni Columbu

Born inNuoro, Sardinia, he graduated in architecturefrom Milan Polytechnic
University.

His work has been on show in manyphotographyand paintingexhibitions, both individual and collective, starting
fromStrategia di Informazioneat Palazzodella Permanente inMilan and at theArtBiennale in Venice(1976)
toIl di/segno del cinema at the
Civic Museumsin Cagliari(2015).He workedfrom 1979 to 1999for RAI, Italian national television,filming severaldocumentariesbroadcast
byEuropeanand Americanbroadcasters.In 1998he foundedthe production companyLuches,he directedthemovieArchipelaghi(2001)"SacherAward2013"and SuRe(2012)"Critics Award2013"andseveraldocumentaries,among whichRitratto di Pablo Volta(2005).He has been contract professorinmovie directionin University.